Sliding-door pocket.



PATENTED JAN. '7, 1908. A. WAGNER. SLIDING DOOR POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31. 1907.

HUM-1 IN VENTOR.

ADOLPH. WAGNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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No. 875,870. I

Specification .of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

I I Applicationfilad J'nly3L-1907. SerialNm386-3'72.

To all whom it may concern.-'- 7 7 Be it known that I, ADOLPHZWAGNER, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at St.

ouis, State of'Missouri, have invented certain new and useful/1m rovements in Silding-Door Pockets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description; reference A being had to the accompanying drawings,

forming a part thereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in sliding-door pockets; and it consists in the novel construction of pocket more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

- thereto.

'In the drawings, Figure 1 is an outside elevation of ,the pocket-wall,- with parts broken away to show the successive layers composing the wall; Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on line 2*2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a perspective of the shoe which receives the bottom of the tee iron entering as a structural feature of the ocket-wall; and Fig. 5 is an elevational detai of the lower portion of one'of the tees and lathing secured The object of my invention is to construct a flanges of the tees facing each other or mg the space generally occupied by the Walls of such pocket as ordinarilyconstructed.

The ordinary wooden studs which are so universally employed for the Walls of slidingdoor pockets are objectionable on account of the undue thickness which they impart to such walls, thisthickness in turn reducing the available area of the rooms separated by such walls. My invention contemplates the substitution for such studs, of suitable structural members in the form of T-irons, the dispositionof whose flanges permits the lathing to be secured in such a way as to materially reduce the cross-sectional dimension of the resulting pocket and the wall.by which such pocket is'defined.

The advantages of the invention will -be better ap arent from a detailed description thereof w 'ch is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 1-, 1, re resent aseries of structural members in the orm of T-irons set in opposite parallel rows with the ointing toward the interior of the" pocket Webs pointing outwardly. The lower ends of the tees rest in shoes 2,- of a suitable formation to admit the flange and web of the tee, the shoe being provided with a flange 2 upper ends of the tees are secured to a wooden header 3 forming the roof of the ocket. Since the tee is received loosely in t e shoe 2, it follows that all the tee freely playing in the shoe inresponse by which it is secured to the floor F. The

shrinkage is allowed for,

to any strains to which the parts may be subof such shrinkage. bottom of the tee rests on a plate 4, and bearing against and overlapping said plates between each pair of tees is a ground strip 5 to which the lower end of the base 6 is nailed, the upper end of said base being nailed to the upper strips 7 disposed between'the webs of contiguous tees. The strips 7 are carrled b the wooden vertical strips 8 disposed albng the outer faces of tees,jsai'd vertical stri s carrying the lathing 9 over which is final y laid the plaster 10. Since the web of the tee projects somewhat into the plaster coat, the latter is thinnest immediately opposite the edge of the web, and as a precaution against cracking or flaking off, I provide a background of Wire-netting 11 the full height of the tee, the stri of netting passin over the edge of the we and being secure to the lathing on each side thereof (Fig. 1). The netting serves to remjected as a result force the plaster coat at this point and prevents the same from cracking and eeling ofl. The rear end of the pocket is c osed by a Wall 12, The outer pair of tees are provided with vertical Wooden studs 13 secured to the tee flanges, and provided with basal dowel pins 14 loosely entering the floor to permit of shrinkage. To the sides of these studs are secured the vertical finish panels or strips 15, to the front of which are in turn secured the frame pieces 16, and to these in turn the friction stri s 17. Between the walls of the ocket slides the door D which is suspended by a hanger 18 from a trolley or wheel 19 running in a boxing 20 secured to the header 3. In lieu of tees, I may substitute anglebars in pairs, which would be a full equivalent for the tees as obvious. It will be seen that by the use of tees, the lathing can be secured on the flanged por- The l the flanges of the tions of the tees, this arrangement necessathe thickness of the completed rily reducin the pocket is formed, over the wall in whic thickness of ocket built from wooden studs'where the athing is nailed to the outer faces of such ls are always true the wall. of a corresponding I g .2 g and. thedanger of binding between the parts is altogether eliminated.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

said faces and theedges of the tee-webs substantially as set forth. g

2. A sliding-door pocket having lncloslng side walls composed of a series of tees with flanges facingthe pocket, shoes resting on the floor for receiving the bottoms of the tees,

. a header for securing the flanges of the tees,

lathing secured to the flanges of the tees, and a plaster coat carried by the lathing, substantially as set forth.

I 3. A sliding-door pocket having inclosing side-walls composedof a series oftees with flanges facing the pocket, shoes resting on st1'ips, and a coat of plaster on the lathing,

the floor and receiving the fees, vertical wooden strips secured along the outer faces 'of'the flanges, lathing nailed to said vertical substantially-as set forth.

strips dispose 'inclosing 4. A sliding-door pocket havin tees with side walls composed of a series 0 flanges facing-the tpocket, shoes for supportor ,se--

ing the bottoms 0 the tees, a header curing the up er ends of the tees, vertica along the outer faces of the flanges on each side of the webs of-the tees, lathing secured to said strips, a reinforcing strip of wire netting passed over the edge of the web of each tee and secured to the lathj mg, and a covering of plaster for the lathing and netting aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

5. In asliding-door pocket having inclosing side walls terminating in a pair of tees having flanges directed toward the pocket, a

stud secured to the outer face of the outer flange of each tee, a finish strip secured to the side face of each stud, a frame secured to the' w outer edge of the strip, a friction-strip secured to the finish-strip, the stud having a bottom in, loosel'y entering the floorto allow for shri (age, substantially as set forth.

6. In a sliding-door pocket, a' wall having a series of tees-disposed with flanges facing the pocket, shoes on the floor for receiving the bottoms of the tees, plates supporting the tees, ground strips abutting against the plates, upper strips disposed above the' ground strips between the webs of contiguous tees, and a base strip or board secured to f the aforesaid ground strips and upper strips, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence oftwo witnesses.

" ADOLPH WAGNER.

Witnesses: i EMIL .STAREK, HELEN S. DAUGHERTY. 

